This painting, like it’s sister “Supernumerary II”, is based upon an exploration of what would happen if i overlapped 3 “visual octaves” in the same painting.
R= 48, 24, 12
O= 24, 12, 6
Y= 16, 8, 4
G= 12, 6, 3
B= 9.6, 4.8, 2.4
I= 8, 4, 2
V= 6.8, 3.4, 1.68
So if you closely examine one of the convergence points, you’ll see that the order of colors goes ROYGBIVGBIVGBIV.
I than added “embellishments” in the “foreground” or top layer of this design, riffing on the idea that both a 2 inch circle and a 4 inch circle can both be INDIGO in this color map.
This piece was completed in the summer of 2017, after roughly a year’s worth of work.
